Manufacture of hammocks



(No Model.)

J. B. HEITZ. MANUFA(TITIRIEI` OP HAMIMIOGKS.

Patented Dec. 9, 1890.4

Wfljesses UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN BERNHARD IIEITZ, OF RUSI-IVILLE, ILLINOIS.

MANUFACTU RE OF HAMMOCKS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 442,116, dated December9, 1890.

Application tiled Septemlie: 3, 1889. Serial No. 322,885. (No modeld Toall whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN BERNHARD HErrz, a citizen of the United States,residing at Rushvi1le,in the county of Schuylerand State of Illinois,have invented a new and useful Manufacture of Hammocks, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to the manu facture of hammocks; and it hasforits object to produce a textile fabric from which the hammocks inquestion maybe easily and quickly manufactured, as will be hereinafterfully described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings, hereto annexed, Figure l is a plan View of a piece ofthe textile fabric forming a part of my invention. Fig. 2 is aperspective view of a hammock embodying my improvements.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in the figures.

The fabric which is used in the manufacture of my improved hammock maybe woven upon an ordinary loom, and it comprises the chain-threads l land the iilling The chain-threads are arranged in blocks or sections 3,Which maybe adistance apart slightly exceeding the width of each blockor section. This may be easily arranged by threading the chain-threadsinthe desired manner through the heddles of the loom-harness. In theprocess of weaving the `Iillin g is likewise arranged in blocks orsections 4, which may also be a distance apart slightly exceeding thewidth of each block or section. In this manner a fabric is formedcomprising the woven blocks or checks 5,the blocks G, composed ofthechainthreads alone, the blocks 7, composed of the filling-yarn alone,and the open blocks or checks 8. Thispattern is continued forasufficient length to make a hammock-body of the desired size, and thechain-threads are then left free from the fillingfor a space of six feetor more to form ends of sufficient length to form the suspending-cordsof the hammock. The pattern is then continued as before, and

each hammock pattern alternates with the free or unwoven sections 9 ofthe chainthreads.

In the manufacture of the hammock from the improved fabric hereindescribed a complete hammock-pattern is first detached from the piece offabric by severing the free chainthreads 9 midway between two patterns.The projecting ends of the chai n-th reads are then twisted so as toform the suspending-cords l0, the ends of which may then be gathered andattached to a suitable ring 1l. The blocks (i of the pattern are thenconnected by the transverse tying-cords l2, and the blocks are similarlyconnected by longitudinal tyingcords 123, said tying-cords beingintertwisted at the points where they cross each other in the blocks S,as will be seen at 1J,Fig.2. In this manner the woven blocks 5 of t-hefabric will be prevented from raveling, and a hainmock of neatappearance and of superior strength will be produced. The finishedarticle may be immersed iu a solution of gelatine and afterward driedfor the purpose of binding the threads more securely together.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent. of the United States- A hammock composed of the patterncomprising the woven blocks 5, the blocks (i of chain-threads7 theblocks 7 of filling-threads, the blank blocksmnd theprojecting unwovenchain-threads l), twisted to form cords,in combination with thetransverse and longitudinal tying-cords l2 and 13, intertwisted a-t thepointsA where they cross each other over the blank blocks of thepattern, substantially as herein set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOI-IN BERNHARD IIEITZ.

Witnesses:

J. R. KNAPP, D. M. STOVER.

